If you’re wondering how diverse chickens can be, or how many breeds there are to choose from, then take a look at the extensive list chicken breed guide below!
You’ll find a chicken breed list of every type, with a wide variety of plumage, sizes and even colored eggs!
These are just of few of the varieties I’ve discovered. If you are looking for a list of chickens for sale, or chicken eggs to hatch, visit the chickens for sale page for a few sites as well as the egg auction page. Soon, I will categorize each breed for you, and perhaps even post some photos of the most popular breeds.
Get the Right Breed of Chicken Breed Guide for You
To get the right breed of chicken for your purpose – whether it be for show, egg production or a meat bird – I always suggest talking to the other poultry raisers in your own area. Find out which breeds they’ve had success with given your climate, temperature, available time to devote to them, and family needs.
As an example, our farm is in a very cold climate and as such we choose the fastest growing meat birds (our warm weather season is very short) and the large black sex link for egg production (their size and color helps them attract and retain heat which means fewer heat lamp hours during our long winters here).
| ‘A’ Chicken Breeds |
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| Ameraucana Ancona Andalusian Antwerp Belgian Appenzell Araucana (lovingly called “Easter Eggers”, due to their pastel colored eggs) Asturian Painted Hen Augsburger Australorp Ayam Bekisar Ayam Cemani |
| ‘B’ Chicken Breeds |
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| Bandara Barbu d’Anver Barbud d’Everberg Bardu de Watermaal Barnevelder Barred Holland Barred Plymouth Rock Barred Rock Barthuhner Berat Chicken Bergische Kraeher Bielefelder Bigawi Blomme Höna Brabanter Braekel Brahma Breda Fowl Bresse Brinkotter Broiler Buckeye Buttercup |
| ‘C’ Chicken Breeds |
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| California Gray Campine Castellana Negra Catalana Chabo Chantecler Cochin Coral Cornish Crevecoeur Criolla Cubalaya |
| ‘D’ Chicken Breeds |
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| Dandarawi Delaware Denizli fowl Dominiques Dorkings d’Uccle Dutch |
| ‘F’ Chicken Breeds |
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| Faverolles Finnish Friesland Frizzle |
| ‘G’ Chicken Breed |
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| Gallus Domesticus (Latin term for Domestic Chicken) Gallus Inauris Gimmizah Golden Montazah Gotland Gournay |
| ‘H’ to ‘L’ Chicken Breeds |
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| Hamburg Hanayee Hedemara Hen Holland Houdan Jersey Giant La Fleche Lakenvelder Lamona Langshan Leghorn Loman |
| ‘M’ ‘N’ and ‘O’ Chicken Breeds |
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| Malay (chicken) Matrouh Milles Fleur (personal favorite) Minorca Naked Neck (Turken) New Hampshire Red Old English Game Orpington |
| ‘P’ to ‘S’ Chicken Breeds |
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| Plymouth Rock Polish Red Cap Rhode Island Red Silkie Silver Montazah Styrian Sultan Sumatra Sussex Swiss Hen |
| ‘V’ to ‘Z’ Chicken Breeds |
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| Vorwerk White-Faced Black Spanish Wyandotte Chicken (in a variety of colors – i.e. gold wyandotte, silver wyandotte, etc.) Wybar Yamato Gunkei Yokohama Yurlower Zireh E |
Do you own a chicken breed guide that isn’t listed on this page? Please let me know!
